The First Nations House of Learning presents a special talk by acclaimed Indigenous writer and humourist Drew Hayden Taylor, who will take you on a journey covering his literary career and other endeavours. Born and raised on the Curve Lake First Nation, he has done everything from performing stand-up comedy at the Kennedy Center in Washington […]
Speaker: Dr. Meaghan Efford, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Modelling past ecosystem baselines and ecosystem change over time can demonstrate the cumulative effects of anthropogenic impacts to ecosystems over seasons to millennia. This project established a new method for modelling in Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE), drawing on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), archaeology, […]
Spanning more than a decade, YINTAH follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from the Canadian government and several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth. Details: Documentary Film Screening Title: YINTAH – A Decade of Wet’suwet’en Resistance Location: Geography Building Room 229 Date: […]
The third event of the ‘Living Archives’ series explores the presence of archives as records of individuals and communities. Absences across archives, marginalized spaces, and attitudes towards languages will be explored. Poet, novelist, and memoirist Marilyn Bowering’s More Richly on Earth: A Poet’s Search for Mary MacLeod traces the life of the obscure 17th-century Gaelic poet who […]
Join us for an inclusive and expansive conversation about the past, present, and future of Canada’s literary landscape featuring Nisga’a poet and author Jordan Abel, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, David Chariandy, celebrated and award-winning author of Brother and I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You and Professor at the University of Toronto, and Anishinaabe […]
Dr. Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian will discuss of the framework of the book she is writing, Fourth World Cinema: Narrative Sovereignty & Indigenous Knowledges (Working title) grounded in her graduate research that focuses on how Indigenous knowledges informs Indigenous film production practices. Dr. Christian will share stories from her experiences in the field that speak to the centrality of land, story, […]
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